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Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life

Name: Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life
Brand: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
SKU: 9783030430474
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Sketches of Lived Time

Autor: Wahida Khandker

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This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selec...

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Autor

Wahida Khandker

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2020

Pagini

193

EAN

9783030430474

Enbook ID

25825239

Editura

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Greutate

454

Dimensiuni

148 x 210 x 16

Descriere completă

This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or 'lived time,' at different scales of functioning. The first part is written from an opening perspective on the question of the differing scales of analysis provided by Alfred North Whitehead. In particular, his interest in questions arising from the quantum mechanical reconciliation with classical mechanics informs the first two chapters that address problematic categorizations of life as variously 'despotic,''invasive,' or as primitive (in the radically more-than-human case of micro-organisms), whose potential recategorization relies on our willingness to acknowledge changes in value depending on the scale at which we view them. The second part of the book concerns methodologies , in the light of works by Henri Bergson, whose intertwining concerns with epistemology and ontology in his theories of mind and life serve as a model for a process philosophy of biology. The chapters focus on techniques used across philosophy and the sciences to visualize processes that are otherwise unavailable to us due to the limitations of our perceptual faculties, no matter how sophisticated the tools for analysis, from microscopes to telescopes, have become. This book concludes with a consideration of the relations between parts and wholes in process, panpsychist, and ecological terms. It revisits the question of ecological balance and the place of human activities in relation to it, with reference to works of Charles Hartshorne and William James.